Local Pearl Harbour rememberance ceremony

[scott powell]

I went to a rememberance for Pearl Harbour today,and had the good chance to meet Mr Roy Mooney, a Pearl Harbour survivor who lives in Georgia( the Atlanta paper did a very good story on him today http://www.ajc.com/search/content/metro/stories/2008/12/07/mooney.html)
Today also served as a day of hounour for WW2 vets,and i spent a nice hour cahtting with a CBI vet, as well as well as n infantryman from the 29th.

It was held at the local airwing/musuem i often frequent,and have donated some items.
These are a great bumch of folks who strive to keep interest alive and hounour those who served.

They had several restored aircraft, including a SBD Dauntless that did a flyover

[scott powell]

There were also re-enactors that served as a colour guard

[scott powell]

Several local politicans spoke,and the vets who attented were called by name

[scott powell]

The SBD Dauntless did a fly over at he end of the ceremony,and Mr Mooney placed a wreath at the base of the flagpole

[Adrian Stevenson]

Hi Scott, nice to lots of Vets in attendance. Thanks for the background story and the pics.

Cheers, Ade.

[Mike Peters]

Thanks for posting this Scott ...I'm glad to see this day properly remembered .

[Steve R]

An excellent piece this one.

I will be retiring in 8 years time and this is one of the many places that I will be visiting. This forum is going from strengh to strengh with some fantastic articles being posted, keep it up!

:thumbup::thumbup::thumbup:

Steve R

[scott powell]

thanx for the comments ade and mike.
steve, i hope you can visit Pear Harbour, its very beautiful,but teh Arizona Memorial is very sad.
Be certain to visit the PunchBowl as well,as the Military Cemetery there is fascinating

[Rob Johnson]

Great post and pics, Scott - I really enjoyed looking at them.

I too must highly recommend visiting the Pearl Harbor memorial and museum. It was an extremely sobering and educational experience.

In addition to the Punchbowl, I'd also recommend visiting the USS Missouri, anchored just a short distance from the Pearl Harbor memorial. My wife and I spent half a day exploring the ship, and there is a memorial plaque marking the spot where the Japanese signed the official surrender, ending WWII.

Two extremely significant and, again, sobering memorials that should be visited at least once in ones lifetime.

Rob